The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. (Complete)E. Maynard & Company, 1892 - 192 Seiten |
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... able to obtain — reasons that he gave to his friends in my hearing - altered his first intention , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr. George Brownell ...
... able to obtain — reasons that he gave to his friends in my hearing - altered his first intention , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr. George Brownell ...
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... able to hear . He had a mechanical genius , too , and on occa- sion was very handy in the use of other tradesmen's tools ; but his great excellence lay in a sound understanding and solid judgment in prudential matters , both in private ...
... able to hear . He had a mechanical genius , too , and on occa- sion was very handy in the use of other tradesmen's tools ; but his great excellence lay in a sound understanding and solid judgment in prudential matters , both in private ...
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... able to do little jobs myself in my house when a workman could not readily be got , and to construct little machines for my experiments , while the intention of making the experi- ment was fresh and warm in my miud . My father at last ...
... able to do little jobs myself in my house when a workman could not readily be got , and to construct little machines for my experiments , while the intention of making the experi- ment was fresh and warm in my miud . My father at last ...
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... able to obtain so 1. Piece of eight . - A Spanish dollar , or piaster , equal in value to eight reals . All coins were of foreign coinage , and therefore in great variety . Besides the familiar shillings and sixpences , there were such ...
... able to obtain so 1. Piece of eight . - A Spanish dollar , or piaster , equal in value to eight reals . All coins were of foreign coinage , and therefore in great variety . Besides the familiar shillings and sixpences , there were such ...
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... able ; I am resolved to have a good printer here , and I am sure you must succeed . " This was spoken with such an appearance of cordiality , that I had not the least doubt of his meaning what he said . I had hitherto kept the proposi ...
... able ; I am resolved to have a good printer here , and I am sure you must succeed . " This was spoken with such an appearance of cordiality , that I had not the least doubt of his meaning what he said . I had hitherto kept the proposi ...
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Seite 18 - It appears to me, or / should not think it, so or so, for such and such reasons; or, / imagine it to be so; or, It is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me, when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures, that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting.
Seite 19 - Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot ; " further recommending to us "To speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence.
Seite 15 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator...
Seite 82 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T, clear of spots, I...
Seite 83 - I made in virtue, by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end, by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book, after a thirteen weeks
Seite 104 - The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, "At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely ; but not now, for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.
Seite 4 - I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
Seite 25 - ... the shore, got into a creek, landed near an old fence, with the rails of which we made a fire, the night being cold, in October, and there we remained till daylight. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek, a little above Philadelphia, which we saw as soon as we got out of the creek, and arrived there about eight or nine o'clock on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market Street wharf.
Seite 18 - I took a delight in it, practised it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Seite 76 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...